[EdnaMode]

Where ratings have been hurt by the leftist politics: award shows, overtly political movies and TV shows, and non franchise movies headlined by actors (like Jennifer Lawrence) who angered their fanbases.

Where people benefited: some late night talk show hosts (whose audiences are mostly young leftists who get their "news" from them), and some "niche" programing on cable/streaming.

So basically, it's not good for business except when the audience is pretty small.

[Steely Tom]

I thought “the knockout game” created quite a bit of turmoil, but only for people who don’t matter to The Washington Post.

[grania]

I’ve gotten out of the habit of going to the movies. I just can’t get into the story when the actors and actresses are so in-your-face about their political opinions in their personal lives. It defines them, instead of the role taking over their identity.

[ClearCase_guy]

I truly don’t understand Trump Derangement.

Sure, if you have close ties to illegal immigrants, Trump is sort of an existential threat. I get that.
But he has no policies that hurt homosexuals.
He has no policies that hurt Blacks.
His policies are having beneficial effects throughout all strata of society.
Why the hatred?

Now, with old Baby Boomers like Jane Fonda and Robert DeNiro, I kind of see that they’re disappointed that the Liberalism and Progressivism of their youth is no longer moving forward. I’m sure that disappoints them.

But Jennifer Lawrence? What is the deal with her? Why does she need to harbor such a desperate hatred for President Trump? It makes no sense at all to me. Unless she’s just totally obsessed with killing babies. I guess she sees Trump as an obstacle to that.

[cuban leaf]

Johnny Carson just skimmed the surface of politics. The current crop, from what I’ve seen, go all in against or for politicians, praying they are in an echo chamber.

[bigbob]

Michele Wolff and Kathy Whatshername, not so much.

I think for many of them its more that Trump beat Hillary and is undoing the Obamanation than hating Trump personally. If not, then all the history of libs sucking up to him because he was a source of money and influence shows just how shallow they are.

[McGavin999]

Idiot people who are easy millionaires and have empty heads. Just like the NFL. Too stupid to figure out half their audience disagrees and therefore half their income goes out the window. DUH

[Sergio]

“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)” ― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

[Albion Wilde]

Entertainment and media folks seem not to recognize that the audience for E&M is only a portion of all adults, and that it skews heavily to younger people, who as a group start out leftist and drift towards the center with age and responsibilities. So, they are operating under a delusion that they represent more than half the country. They don’t see that leftist opinions are not the mainstream of the electorate.